bécarre
\be.kaʁ\
The verdict
“bécarre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de musique en forme de petit carré (♮) : on le met devant une note qui avait été haussée ou baissée d’un demi-ton, pour rétablir cette note dans son ton naturel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-becarre · bécarre · French
bécarre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bécarre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \be.kaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
bécarre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \be.kaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de musique en forme de petit carré (♮) : on le met devant une note qui avait été haussée ou baissée d’un demi-ton, pour rétablir cette note dans son ton naturel.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bécarre, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bécarre, spelled B-É-C-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de musique en forme de petit carré (♮) : on le met devant une note qui avait été haussée ou baissée d’un demi-ton, pour rétablir cette note dans son ton naturel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bécarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mettre un bécarre à une note, devant une note.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.